Honors Theses from 2021
Alternative Ethnographies: Negotiating Identity in the Photography of Mahtab Hussain, Avani Leela Sastry
Accessibility is An Opportunity, Not a Burden: A Study on the Accessibility of E-commerce Sites for Individuals who are Blind or Visually Impaired, Mariana Suarez Claure
A Tri-Project Approach: Expanding Three Different Frontiers of Neuroscience, Jullian J. Valadez
Multi-Scale Dynamical Analysis on Circadian Rhythms of Arabidopsis thaliana, Yian Xu
Ways of Seeing in Anthropology, Yukiko Yamazaki
Strategic Gatekeeping: Geopolitical Objectives and Turkey's Syrian Refugee Policy, Maria Zaharatos
Predicting Diabetes On Phenotype and Genotype using Neural Networks, Chonghao Zhang
Honors Theses from 2020
Maximalist Design for Food Branding, Elyse Andrews
The Postcolonial Tempest, Kaylee Avila, Jessie De Arman, and Stephanie Gredell
Evolution of Senescence in Humans - The Rift Between Lifespan and Healthspan, Mitch Beito
Images of Jewishness in Italian Renaissance Art: Proximity, Agency, Caricature, Raquel Belden
“And By Drawing, She Will Find It Again,”: Identity & Memory in Contemporary Third- and Fourth-Generation Holocaust Graphic Memoir, Emily Josephine Bourgeois
In the Shadows of Memory: The Politics of Holocaust Memorialization and the Rise of Global Populism, Emily Josephine Bourgeois
Making Kin with Kudzu, Abigail Davidovna Bowen
Selfish Plants and Multispecies Creativity: Alternative Narratives in Environmental Discourse, Abigail Davidovna Bowen
A Tale of Two (City-Sized) Nuclei: Investigating Neutron Star Mergers with WhiskyTHC, Zachary Jones Carter
Le Traumatisme et L'Enjeu Narratif Dans le Roman Meursault, Contre-Enquête de Kamel Daoud, David Ellis Clark
Analyzing the Relation Between Academic Competition and Altruism, Caroline Crain
Ana Mendieta and the Ethics of Viewing Violence, Ariel Paloma Del Vecchio
Female Nesting Site Choice in Brown Anole (Anolis sagrei) Lizards: Implication for Embryonic and Post-Hatching Development, Abigail J. Dennis
Pawns at Play: Refugees and the Game of Foreign Policy, Benjamin J. Falcon
In Pursuit of the Sacred: The Idealistic Alignment of Arvo Pärt and Pope Pius X, Lindsey Farley
The Woman of a Lifetime: How Frieda Lawrence Influenced Sons and Lovers and Revived D.H. Lawrence, Madeline Freeman
From the Horse's Mouth: Voices of the Nonhuman in Classic Children's Literature, Kathleen A. Gekiere
An Introductory Survey of Computational Space Complexity, Kaylee Noelle Ghent
Producing the Qualified: Resource Allocation for Lead Abatement in San Antonio, Benjamin C. Gonzalez
“Backyard Archaeology”: An Archaeological Survey of 19714 Encino Knoll Street, San Antonio, Texas, 78259, Kayla Griscom
Curbing the Spread of Disinformation Through User Interface Design, Mary Margaret Herring
What We Ought to Say: An Appropriation of King Lear, Theresa Ho
Trace Elements Cycling in a Crude Oil-Contaminated Aquifer near Bemidji, Northern Minnesota, Katherine Lane Jones
Dopamine Receptor Dependence of Cocaine-Mediated Plasticity in Specific Excitatory Synapses Onto Midbrain Dopamine Neurons, Aamuktha Reddy Karla
Still Unclear After All These Years: County Variation in California Capital Trials, 2007-2018, Frances Kennedy-Long
Computationally Predicting Genetic Interaction Using Protein Networks, Lechuan Li
Developing a Gamified Online Learning Management System for Business Students, Shiyu Liu
Michelangelo and Tommaso Cavalieri: The Dual Nature of Love and Desire, Isaak Loewen
Pandemic-Induced Mortality Salience and Jury Decision-Making, Autumn K. Lucas-Marinelli
Investigating the Effects of Natural Environmental Factors on the Viability of Dye Tracer Testing, Myron Malisse Lummus
Influence of RNA-Seq Data Analysis Methods on the Outcome of Transcribing Analyses of Zika Virus Infection in a Baboon Model, Emma Lyda Mask
A Reflection on BLM in the Era of the Coronavirus and the Role of Social Media, Despina Matzakos
The Glass Transition in a Dense 2D Colloidal Fluid, William C. Moore
Cocaine-Induced Structural and Functional Changes of Input-Specific Excitatory Synapses on Nigral Dopamine Neurons, Juan Felipe Moreno Manrique
Barbary: Creating Theater to Give a Voice and a Name to Black Women in Shakepeare and Beyond, Lindsay Jasmine Morgan
Letting Go of the Merry-Go-Round: The Subversion of Recovery Narratives in Addition Films, Alex Motter
The Relevance of Shortwave UV-B Radiation to Plant UV-B Associated Responses in Field Conditions, Andrea Nebhut
Tenues Grandia: Lyric Performance in Horace and Marvell, Tiffany Diem-Suong Nguyen
Stories from the River, Aubrey G. Parke
The City in the Mist: Imagining Shanghai in Yang Yongliang’s Phantom Landscapes, Avani Leela Sastry
A Virgin Made Less, Merriam Scafide
Establishment of Chinese Medicine Practice in San Antonio, Texas, Chloe Kristina Sonnier
“The Sphinx’s Story”: An Intertwining Melody of Emotions and Complexity, Kendal Southwell
From Pleasure to Pain: Eroticism, Struggle and Gender in Jesús F. Contreras's Malgré Tout, Isla Marie Stewart
Artificial Light at Night (ALAN): An Anthropogenic Challenge for Urban Lizard Behavior and Physiology, Laura A. Taylor
The Computer-Aided Die Study (CADS): A Tool for Conducting Numismatic Die Studies with Computer Vision and Hierarchical Clustering, Zachary McCord Taylor
Reorienting the Orient: An Examination of Asian Influence on the Intercultural Theatre, Leah Woehr
Red-Lavender Colorblindness: Institutionalized Oppression and American Gay Life, Brooke Yung
Submissions from 2019
A Twelfth-Century Service for Enclosing an Anchorite or Anchoress: Introduction, Latin Text, and Translation, Luke Ayers and Victoria Bahr
Ethos of the Underground: Precarious Communities in San Antonio DIY Music, Noelle C. Barrera
Royal Tombs at Ur Research Project, Raquel Belden
Understanding Poetry: 5th Grade Introduction to Writing Poetry, Samantha Bos and Jackie Jaramillo
Jane Austen's Artful Buildings: Embodying the Bildungsroman, Natalie Carrier
5th Grade Adaptation, Michael Carroll
Innovative Empires, Marisa C. Cavin
High School Physics Electricity Unit, Beverly Chatfield
Red Card: The European Refugee Crisis, Isabel Chiriboga
AP Studio Art - Beginning the Sustained Investigation, Hannah Cone
Exploring the Female Perspective: Culturally Sensitive Models for the Effective Use of Traditional Birth Attendants in Rural Tanzania, Caroline Crain
Conscious or Unconscious: The Role of Education in Consciousness Raising among Chilean Youth, Samsara Davalos Reyes
Multi-Color Diffusion Simulation of Dye Over Folded Fabrics, Horst R. Evans
“Call It What You Want”: The Impact of Fan Characteristics on Political Views, Christopher R. Fanick
AP Physics: Modeling with Computer Simulations, Maxwell Vincent Fazio
Convolution Acceleration: Query Based Filter Pruning with ALSH, Arthur Feeney
Together Here: Immersive Theatre, Audience, and Space, Holly J. Gabelmann
It’s a Dog’s Life: Dog Transformations in Two Examples of Modern Russian Literature, Alexandra Jane Gass
Follow Me to Pre-K: Students Learning to Interact in Their New Environment, Emily Hall
La frontera y la comunicación: How Language Influences Our Identity, Josie Hammons and Claudia Fernanda Ramirez
"The Supremacy of Human Rights Everywhere": The Struggle against Jim Crow during World War II, Thomas Harvell-DeGolier
Targeting Methionine-Terminated Peptides and Proteins Using Cucurbit[8]uril, Zoheb Hirani
Slutty Embellishments: Elizabethan Fashion and Projections of Decadence in Marlowe's Hero and Leander, Brian Holmes
you tried to explain something to me, Brian Holmes
The Ecology of Dynamic Body Color in the Green Anole, Anolis carolinensis, Daisy M. Horr
Sharing Stories: An Introduction to Literary Writing and Analysis (9th grade), Talia Howard
Untold Stories of American History, Sarah Hudson and Zachary Wilson
Weaving the Threads of the Global Tapestry, Melendy Jacobie and Gretchen Wickes
Culture and Identity in Novels Centered Around Women of Color, Blake R. Keeling
Customizable Data Visualization of Wnt Signaling, Morgan Lee King
Organ-izing the Human Body System [7th Grade], Aly Kirchhof
Mirage: A New Package for the Simulation of Gravitationally Microlensed Quasars, Jordan D. Koeller
Video Game AI Algorithms, Bowen Li
Short Term Load Forecasting Using Recurrent and Feedforward Neural Networks, Andrew K. Loder
The Heliand's Massacre of the Innocents: Was the Heliand Written by a Woman?, Isaak Loewen
HIV Resistance Prediction using Feed Forward Neural Networks and Sequence Expansion Methodologies, Christopher S. Luikart
What Causes Revolt? [7th grade Texas History], Grace Marengo Sanchez
Introduction to IB Language and Literature: Storytellers and the Single Story, Savannah McDonough and Megan Day
The Story of Periodicity: An Exploration of Sam Kean’s The Disappearing Spoon for Chemistry and English, Elizabeth Muire and Kay Newsome
Investigating Atoms and the Periodic Table, Yvette Muniz
Democracy Revoked: How Foreign Relations and Domestic Opinion Led to the Internment of Japanese Americans During World War II, Clarisse Nakayama
Immodest Empowerment: Disjunction Between the Development Agenda and Lived Experiences of "Women's Land Rights" in Southeastern Gujarat, Nhi Hoang Thuc Nguyen
Flour and Fractions (Making Fractions Fun in 4th Grade), Elle V. Norman
Virtuous Disassembly: Material and Ethical Practice of a Global Electronic Waste Regime, Michael A. Paniagua Jr.